| gen. |
lyophilisation (a method of drying food or blood plasma or pharmaceuticals or tissue without destroying their physical structure; material is frozen and then warmed in a vacuum so that the ice sublimes • Syn: freeze-drying, lyophilization. WN3 Alexander Demidov); freeze-drying (Freeze-drying, also known as lyophilisation, lyophilization, or cryodesiccation, is a dehydration process typically used to preserve a perishable material or make the material more convenient for transport. Freeze-drying works by freezing the material and then reducing the surrounding pressure to allow the frozen water in the material to sublimate directly from the solid phase to the gas phase. WK Alexander Demidov); cryodesiccation (WK Alexander Demidov) |
